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Case Number 06-4459, Erie County Supreme Court, 8th Judicial District, Erie County, NY. Thomas Wade Carter is facing criminal charges in the shooting death of one Joyce Ann Miller. The complaint alleges that in the late afternoon hours of Tuesday, July 6, Thomas Wade Carter discharged a weapon from the rear of a moving vehicle. The resulting shotgun blast struck and killed the four-year-old victim as she played in the front yard of the Miller family residence located on Fourth Street. The complaint further alleges that Thomas Wade Carter had set forth with the weapon in search of one Oscar Hanks, an individual residing on Fourth Street some three houses removed from the Miller residence. According to the complaint, after having been involved in an altercation with Hanks on the prior evening, Carter set out on the afternoon of July 6 with the purpose of retaliating against Hanks. Carter has been indicted on one count of second-degree murder (the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought) and one count of involuntary manslaughter (the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought).